Catch me if you can: "It was even worse after they caught him"

"It was even worse after they caught him."

Freddy on the brain again.

How do you think Freddy originally got caught by the police?

Disregarding Freddy's Dead with the whole "Freddy's a Daddy" background. and the episode of Freddy's Nightmares "No More Mr Nice Guy"(am I the only one who always hears Alice Cooper sing that title when I read it?) for the moment.

It seems unlikely that they would have caught him in the act. That would have been enough evidence to lock him up for a while if he was found...Glove in hand,
someones child in the other. His extended time in court was due to evidence gathered via an improperly signed search warrant.

So this means he must have been under suspicion for some reason. But what reasons would have led to a search warrant?

Yes, the town wanted to catch the killer and were more than likely hungry to point out anyone who looked out of place.Someone like Freddy who probably had prior run ins with the law,Who reeked of weirdness and danger,Would be an easy target.

But what could have been the final straw? Was he repeatedly seen in the neighborhoods by others before a body was found?Did he revisit the scenes of the crime and was spotted in the background,over and over? Did the children speak of the creepy guy in the red and green sweater and hat who was always watching them outside on the playground or in the park? Did he always wear that sweater and it's repeated sightings near crime scenes gave the police reason to single him out? I can picture Freddy as the type who had a limited wardrobe due to his situation in life. The sweater being an old christmas sweater he picked up at a shelter. It being one of the few items of clothing he owns, he wears it constantly.

What was the lucky break for which the cops arrested Freddy? Was he pulled over for a busted tail light and they arrested him on the spot for something they found in his vehicle? Something circumstantial that was thought to belong to one of recently missing children? That then caused them to write up a search warrant to break into the boiler room to look for evidence to link Freddy to the crime? Maybe he was arrested creating a disturbance while drunk one night and they found something on his person. I've often thought Freddy was the type of individual who kept a cot in a back storage room of the place where he worked. His bosses taking pity on him and offering him the unused space since he had nothing else. Maybe someone at work found something in this room of his that made them call the cops, thinking Freddy was the murderer

It was said Freddy took "his kids" to an old abandoned boiler room.But I don't recall it ever bluntly stated he worked in one. In Nightmare 2 it is said he worked at a factory that appears to now be abandoned. So perhaps he worked at one and took the kiddies to another place. Maybe the factory and boiler room were owned by the same company. And through his day job connection Freddy discovered the abandoned boiler room for his private work. Maybe the abandoned boiler room was on the same site.No longer used, in the back of the lot , and this is the space where Freddy's boss offered him to sleep between shifts. Maybe one day, someone went looking for Freddy for some reason and they discovered something disturbing. This tip leading to the the initial issuing of the search warrant that would be unsigned in their haste to catch the killer.

Or might he have been arrested in direct relation to the murders?

Did they possibly just fake the search warrant?In desperation to capture the killer.They had no concrete evidence to make their case but knew they would find some in his lair and after the revelations who would care about the tiny detail of a missing signature? Maybe they thought they could convince Freddy's appointed lawyer to play along. But when the media turned the trial into a side show that had the whole town watching,perhaps,the lawyer in question thought it would make him more money if he did his job and upheld the law.He might have seen this as a way to start his own law firm since his name was now mentioned in every newspaper article connected to this trial.His name now becoming so well known its almost a brand in the town. If it was later revealed that he missed this important legal fact , it would have damaged his job standing. Though who afterwards would hire the man who helped free Freddy is suspect. His new clientele would probably be criminals of a different nature who saw him as someone who would help them win a case.

I picture Freddy through all of this gleefully enjoying the spectacle he created. Watching the lawyers becoming less concerned with upholding the law and more concerned with capturing that next name in the headline. The Plaintiff lawyer dragging parent after parent after parent up onto the stage to weep publicly as they describe in detail how innocent and precious their little snowflakes were before Freddy took them.How they found their bodies Freddy grinning remorselessly at each of them.

While Freddy is known for having a wicked sense of humor, it would much creepier if he sat there staring at them in smiling silence for the entire trial.

What do you think led to his arrest?